Projetos de Pesquisa Aplicada: Recent submissions
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China shock: the impact on trade and incomes
2016Is US presidential candidate Donald Trump right when he claims that the Chinese are causing serious damage to American workers? Research by João Paulo Pessoa analyses the impact of the recent massive increase in China’s ... -
Legitimacy as a barrier: an analysis of Brazilian premium cocoa and chocolate legitimation process
2017O Brasil participa em aproximadamente 29% da exportação mundial de café, sendo 15% de "café especial". A maior parte da exportação é composta por café commodity, influenciando a orientação da cadeia de valor por um paradigma ... -
Legitimacy as a barrier: an analysis of brazilian premium cocoa and chocolate legitimation process
2017How can a product be legitimated when the legitimation process includes another legitimate product as a barrier? To address this matter, we conducted a process theorization through in-depth analysis of interviews and ... -
Institutionalization of ethnicities: market catalysts and inhibitors between entrepreneurship and colonization
2017Previous literature has shown that in omnivorous and cosmopolite markets, ethnic cuisines are institutionalized through discourses that create legitimacy through the relationship with ethnicity and its Otherness. However, ... -
Cachacier or cachaceiro? The legitimation process of cachaça
2017Cachaça is a genuine and traditional Brazilian distilled liquor and its history is closely linked to the country’s cultural heritage. However, the cachaça has been facing many difficulties in its recently started legitimization ... -
Indicador de preço de seguro de casco
2018Análise dos dados da SUSEP para seguros de carro no período de 2008 à 2014 para todo o Brasil. A variável dependente analisada é a média do prêmio do casco. -
Big data no mercado de seguros de veículos: estudo de caso para a região metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro
2018-05Este trabalho tem o intuito de realizar uma análise estatística exploratória para o mercado de seguro de veículos do Rio de Janeiro dos anos de 2012 a 2016 utilizando as ferramentas que a linguagem R oferece para trabalhar ... -
Core GDP: a medium- to long-run measure of Brazilian economic activity
2018The economic activity of a country can be affected by shocks due to short-duration events that do not represent change in the business cycle. Knowledge about the current state of the economy is useful in decision making ... -
Machine-learning techniques and short-term combination forecasting of industrial production
2018The aim of this study was to develop short-term forecasts of the industrial production index in Brazil. Forecasts are made using five different methodologies: SARIMA, regressions, a structural, a dynamic factor models and ... -
Medindo a incerteza econômica no Brasil
2017Nos últimos anos a literatura internacional acerca da mensuração e dos efeitos da incerteza na economia foi impulsionada por técnicas de web-scrapping, onde notícias são extraídas de veículos de informação online, como as ... -
Seed money grant project proposal climate perception and adaptation strategiesin the food supply chain
2016Climate change and the impacts of extreme weather events represent a major threat to company operations and supply chains. However, there are few studies regarding climate change risks to firms and their adaptation responses. ... -
Supply Chain Context and its Impacts on Resilience
2017This paper empirically investigates the influence of supply chain context on supply chain resilience, during an extreme climate event. Design/methodology/approach: Based on 41 indepth qualitative interviews in two Brazilian ... -
Unveiling physicians’ choice of practice location: evidence from observed migration
2019-03-22This paper exploits the revealed preferences of all generalist physicians graduated in Brazil between 2001 and 2013 to examine the factors influencing their decision of practice location after graduation. We estimate ... -
Technology adoption and structural transformation: evidence from the industrialization of the sugarcane sector
2020-06-15This paper shows how the adoption of an agricultural technology necessary to meet new environmental standards can prompt structural transformation in an emerging economy. We study the fast spread of mechanical harvesting ... -
Firm dynamics in response to green subsidies: eJose Miguel Abitovidence from Kyoto Protocol CDMs in Brazil
2016In this paper, we investigate the e ect of subsidies to promote Green Jobs upon rm dy-namics. We do so by focusing on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, a feature of the Kyoto Protocol that allowed developed ... -
Quanto vale a pena fazer um doutorado? Um Estudo sobre as carreiras de egressos de programas de doutorado no Brasil
2015O presente estudo descreve a atuação profissional de egressos de programas de doutorado no Brasil, titulados entre 2010 e 2012, e estima os diferenciais de rendimento associados a este nível de formação. Estes diferenciais, ... -
Local socioeconomic impacts of Brazilian Hydroelectric Power Plants
2017This paper estimates the short- and medium-run effects of the construction of large hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) on the economic development of Brazilian municipalities. We use the synthetic control method to perform ... -
Power plants and deforestation: recent evidence from the Amazon
2017This paper estimates the impacts of the construction of the new HPPs built in the Brazilian Amazon between 2003 and 2011 on local deforestation patterns. We assemble a comprehensive geo-referenced dataset combining dams’ ...
